[BurningFrog]

> Why do Americans not look at public provision, paid for via your tax system? Canada does it, so it demonstrably does work in North America, Europe does it, with varying degrees of efficiency, but it basically works.

This article presents a good argument for why Single Payer won't work well in the US: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-04-30/single-pa...

> Americans are happy to send their children to school

Americans are, on average not happy to send their children to public schools

[keypusher]

Why are the vast majority of US children enrolled in public school if their parents are so unhappy about it?

[splintercell]

Because they have no other option.

One of the reasons why Americans are so vehemently against Universal Healthcare because once you go there, you don't easily get to come back.

Once govt starts to provide a certain service, it kills the private sector market for that. Then no matter how terrible govt service is, there isn't much which can be done about it.

[jimbokun]

That was a great analysis from Bloomberg, thanks for the link.

[massysett]

Look through all her articles, she writes a lot about US healthcare policy, generally with a skeptical eye toward recent legislative efforts.